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Title When the levees broke [videorecording] : a requiem in four acts / HBO Documentary Films ; directed by Spike Lee ; producers, Sam Pollard, Spike Lee ; 40 Acres and A Mule Filmworks.

Imprint [New York, N.Y.] : HBO Video, c2006.

Copies

Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe DVDs 1st Floor  551.552 W573 2006  v.2 c.2    ---  Available
 Axe DVDs 1st Floor  551.552 W573 2006  v.1 c.2    ---  Available
 Axe DVDs 1st Floor  551.552 W573 2006  v.3 c.2    ---  Available
Edition Widescreen (16:9) format.
Description 3 videodiscs (255 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
System Details DVD, region 1; Dolby digital 5.1 in English, Dolby digital 2.0 in Spanish.
Language In English or dubbed Spanish; optional French or Spanish subtitles.
Closed-captioned.
Credits Director of photography, Cliff Charles ; editors, Geeta Gandbhir, Nancy Novack, Samuel D. Pollard ; original music composed by Terence Blanchard.
Note Originally produced as a television documentary in 2006.
Special feature (discs 1 & 2): optional audio commentary by filmmaker Spike Lee.
Special feature (disc 3): "Water is rising" (photo gallery shot by David Lee, with music by Terence Blanchard; 8 min.).
Audience TV-14 HBO Video.
Summary Four acts document distinct perspectives on the pivotal events that preceded and followed Katrina's passage through New Orleans, a catastrophe during which the divide between race and class lines has never been more pronounced.
Contents Disc 1. Act I (65 min.) ; Act II (62 min.) -- Disc 2. Act III (58 min.) ; Act IV (70 min.) -- Disc 3. Next movement : Act V (107 min.) / directed by Spike Lee ; edited by Barry Alexander Brown.
Subject Hurricane Katrina, 2005.
Hurricanes -- Louisiana -- New Orleans.
Levees -- Louisiana -- New Orleans.
Emergency management -- Louisiana -- New Orleans.
Disaster relief -- Louisiana -- New Orleans.
Disaster victims -- Louisiana -- New Orleans.
New Orleans (La.) -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
New Orleans (La.) -- Economic conditions -- 21st century.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Genre/Form Documentary films.
Added Author Lee, Spike.
Pollard, Sam.
HBO Documentary Films.
Forty Acres & a Mule Filmworks.
HBO Video (Firm)
Added Title Next movement : Act V.
Water is rising.
ISBN 078315075X
9780783150758
Standard No. 026359397325
Music No. 93973 HBO Video

 
    
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